Mediagazer: Journalism's Misdeeds Get a Glance in the Mirror (David Carr/New York Times)

12:45 AM ET, July 31, 2012

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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book — Jonah Lehrer, the staff writer for The New Yorker who apologized in June for recycling his previous work in articles, blogs and his bestselling book “Imagine,” resigned from the magazine, he said in a statement.

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Michael C. Moynihan / Tablet Magazine:

Jonah Lehrer's Deceptions — The celebrated journalist fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. “It's a hard thing to describe,” Bob Dylan once mused about the creative process. “It's just this sense that you got something to say.”

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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Q & A: Michael C. Moynihan, The Blogger Who Uncovered Jonah Lehrer's Fabrication Problem — Long story short, over the last three weeks, widely ballyhooed author, contemporary thinker, and erstwhile New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer has been questioned for what one reporter suspected …

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David Daley / Salon: Jayson Blair: Jonah Lehrer's story reminds me of my own

Guy Adams / The Independent:

#NBCFail: Journalist at The Independent has Twitter account suspended after complaining about NBC's coverage of London 2012 Olympics — On Friday afternoon, like every resident of America, I was not watching the Olympic opening ceremony. Instead, I was sat at home, quietly fuming at the fact that NBC …

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John Koblin / Deadspin:

NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter — Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained:

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Here's the Do-Not-Forward Mayer Memo Bidding Goodbye to Ross “The Hair” …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Rafat Ali: Media builds a brand, data builds the revenue — Rafat Ali — who built paidContent, sold paidContent, took two years off to travel and said he did not want to go back to beating his head against the collapsing wall of journalism — is back in journalism.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Rafat Ali on building a media company on top of public data

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Rafat Ali's Skift aims to be the Politico of travel websites

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Ford Foundation gives Washington Post $500,000 grant for government-accountability reporting — A memo from The Washington Post leadership to staff says the grant of a half-million dollars will allow four new hires. In May, the Ford Foundation granted the Los Angeles Times $1 million to …

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Nielsen Sued for Billions Over Allegedly Manipulated TV Ratings — In a huge new lawsuit, the business of TV ratings is fingered for rampant corruption by India's largest TV news network. — New Delhi Television Limited, India's oldest and largest news network, has lobbed a legal grenade at The Nielsen Company.

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David Carr / New York Times:

Journalism's Misdeeds Get a Glance in the Mirror — Imagine this chain of events: a division of a large multinational company is accused of a pattern of corporate misconduct that includes surveillance, hacking into phones and bribery of law enforcement officials.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix experiments with crowd-sourced captioning — Netflix just launched a subtitling community project on the video captioning service Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles. The company is looking for a limited number of volunteers on the site, and apparently wants …

Timothy Burke / Deadspin:

NBC Also Edited Out A Tribute Featuring Two Dead U.S. Servicemen From Their Opening Ceremony Broadcast — NBC explained that it skipped a memorial to terrorism victims in its broadcast of the Olympic opening ceremony because its show was “tailored for our American audience.”

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

The New Digg Is Launching On Wednesday: Will Be “Beautiful, Image-Friendly, And Ad-Free” — After its new owners decided to go back to the drawing board and figure out what to do with the former Web 2.0 darling, Digg is relaunching on Wednesday. Today, a week after its new owner Betaworks explained …